The Price of Our Clothes Exhibition 
a Collaboration with Visual Artist Rachel Breen

The Price of Our Clothes exhibition is a material meditation on garment factory disasters. Responding to the collapse of garment factories at Rana Plaza in Savar, Bangladesh, 2013, and the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City, 1911, the exhibit presents evocative mixed-media artwork, powerful sound pieces, poems, and performances, to encourage contemplation about our historic and present day relationship with the people who make the clothes we wear.

 

In 2015, we travelled to Bangladesh to research the project and write a blog chronicling our experiences and reflections. Our trip was supported with funds from Rimon: The Jewish Arts Council.

 

Read the blog here
Scroll to the bottom of the blog to begin.

 

In 2018 we exhibited “The Price of Our Clothes” at the Perlman Teaching Museum’s Braucher Gallery on the Carleton College campus in Northfield, Minnesota,

and a variation on the exhibit, “Sewing Voices: The Labor We Wear,” at the Tychman-Shapiro Gallery in Minneapolis. The Brin Jewish Arts Endowment supported our work.

Read Sheila Regan’s article about the exhibit,
“Haunting Artistic Tribute to Workers Killed in Bangladesh and the US,”
in Hyperallergic magazine.

Read Molly Priesmeyer’s interview with us after our trip,
“What Are Your Clothes Worth?”
in the StarTribune.